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Andrew Malek

Lead Software Developer
Bigtincan
Country or state 
United States
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North America
City 
Atlanta, GA
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Languages 
English
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Presented UI / UX talks at the following conferences: All Things Open, Code PaLOUsa, CodeStock (4 yrs), Connect.JS/Tech (5 yrs), DevNexus (4 yrs), DevSpace, JazzCon.TECH (2 yrs), Kansas City Developer Conference, Music City Tech (3 yrs), RevolutionConf, Scenic City Summit (4 yrs), TDevConf, The University of Illinois Web Conference (2 yrs), and We RISE Tech Conference.

Focusing on UI architecture, design, and front-end development, both desktop and mobile.

Over a decade of front-end and back-end web development experience participating in all phases of SDLC including analysis, coding, unit testing, and integration testing. Experience in website and software design, databases, source control, QA, technical writing, SEO and web marketing, and web server administration.

I am on Twitter at: @malekontheweb

Current position (1)

Lead Software Developer

Bigtincan

Degrees (1)
Computer Science
University of Tennessee - Knoxville
1994 to 1998

Presentations

Presentations (9)
When the Developer Must Design

Any of these happen to you?

* Tasked to develop a user interface with an incomplete design spec, so had to make guesses such as where to position on-screen elements?

* Worked on a small team without a full-time designer, and requested to “just put a screen together for a demo”?

* Been asked to consult with a user interface designer, but don’t know what types of questions to pose?

Nowadays, everyone wants attractive, easy-to-use interfaces, so if you’re more comfortable sifting through Java or C# code than OmniGraffle or Visio mockups, learn about topics that can assist in creating more usable desktop applications, mobile apps, and websites. This talk provides easy-to-implement hints that can improve even a bad or “so-so” user interface. Areas of focus include the need for consistency; “negative space”; location, location, location (it’s crucial in screen real-estate, too!); contrasting colors; and the importance of action verbs.

Responsive Design and Development "Gotchas"

This session explores why choosing a good responsive framework, while assisting in development and ensuring a consistent look-and-feel, is just one piece of the much larger process of creating a truly engaging website or web application. Topics include why using the latest swiping motion du jour may not immediately make sense to all users, how a site's layout and content must truly be thought of as an architecture project to get the most "bang for the buck", and what problems that interactivity in the form of form entry can result in driving potential users and customers away, never to be seen again.

Tablets and Hybrids Need Mobile-Optimized Websites, Too!

It takes extra work to deliver a truly responsive website. Since larger tablets and hybrids such as iPad Pros and Windows Surface devices can fit the full size of a standard laptop/desktop website, a tempting thought is to deliver to them the exact same experience. Why spend extra effort providing different navigation or content since their screen resolutions equal, or exceed, that of many monitors?

Icons Behaving Badly

The design behind adding interactivity to an application or website seems trivial; download a free icon collection from sites such as Flaticon, Font Awesome, or iconmonstr, pick an appropriate icon, and add the image to your work. However, should there be more to this process, especially if you are concerned about people understanding how to use what you develop? Learn why the "5-second rule" doesn't apply just to picking food off the floor, how the wrong icon can show cultural insensitivity, why the manner icons are placed in a website or app may be as important as the images themselves, and how to perform icon usability tests. You may be surprised which icons users find to be generally instantly recognizable as to what functions they relate, and which others not so much.

Developers: Why Care About the User?

As developers, we deal with technologies, frameworks, and data, making it very easy to forget that what we create is meant for real people to use.

While designers and UI specialists should handle most decisions about how a product or service looks and feels, we should all be on the same page to make better solutions. Whether we are building an interface for a desktop website, mobile application, or chatbot, what are some basic design concepts that we as developers can pick up, allowing us to be on the same page with designers and product owners during product meetings and discussions?

Why Nobody Fills Out My Forms

Has your web form conversion rate hit a wall? Are users not receiving confirmation e-mails, getting pestered with password or data format warnings *after* they finish entering their information, or bailing after being asked the same questions multiple ways? Find out why not enough people are filling out your web forms, and learn suggestions of A/B tests you can try to help encourage more people to interact.

Why Nobody Fills Out My Forms Part 2 - Electric Boogalo

Still having difficulty encouraging people to fill out web forms to sign up for newsletters, apply for jobs, or complete their online shopping orders? Find out even more tips to help keep people from abandoning early, such as making form field widths more convenient, easing credit card entry, grouping related fields into sections to promote scanning, and styling buttons and controls so your webpage does not look like it was written in 2000.

Cognitive Biases and the User Experience

According to Wikipedia, cognitive biases cause individuals to 'create their own "subjective social reality" from their perception of the input.' Some of these allow us to take shortcuts when processing information... with mixed results.

Though not all confirmation biases can be neatly labeled "good" or "bad", as we increase our recognition of when these occur, the more we can determine how they affect our decision-making. Learn more about biases such as confirmation bias, false consensus effect, framing bias, halo effect, and Parkinson's Law of triviality (the bicycle shed effect). These can affect usability testing, user research, presenting research findings, and UX design.

When Things Go Wrong – The User Experience of Error Handling

"Murphy was an optimist."

The design of a website or application often focuses on creating a delightful user experience when people, for example, subscribe to a newsletter, enter purchase information for a product or service, or search through records consisting of customer contact data or invoices or menu items at a restaurant.

However, what if things don’t follow the "happy path"? Despite the best of intentions, edge cases and error conditions occur due to user error, such as a mistyped credit card number or email address, system errors, such as incorrectly configured servers or program bugs, or connectivity issues to the Internet or third-party services. How our creations handle these issues - if they handle them at all - can make the difference between a slightly annoyed but understanding user, or one that might decide to seek out your competitors.

Past talks (31)
When Things Go Wrong – The User Experience of Error Handling
University of Illinois Web Conference 2022
virtual
Developers: Why Care About the User?
Scenic City Summit 2021
virtual
Developers: Why Care About the User?
Music City Tech 2021
virtual
Cognitive Biases and the User Experience
DevNexus 2021
virtual
Cognitive Biases and the User Experience
Code PaLOUsa 2021
virtual
Developers: Why Care About the User?
DevNexus 2020
Atlanta, GA
Cognitive Biases and the User Experience
TDevConf 2020
virtual
Cognitive Biases and the User Experience
Codestock 2019
Knoxville, TN
Is This a Button? A Question Your Users Should Never Ask.
Revolution Conf 2019
Virginia Beach, VA
Cognitive Biases and the User Experience
Connect.TECH 2019
Atlanta, GA
Why Nobody Fills Out My Forms Part 2: Electric Boogaloo
Music City Tech 2019
Nashville, TN
Is This a Button? A Question Your Users Should Never Ask.
Scenic City Summit 2019
Chattanooga, TN
Is This a Button? A Question Your Users Should Never Ask.
Kansas City Developer Conference 2019
Kansas City, MO
Why Nobody Fills Out My Forms Part 2: Electric Boogalo
DevNexus 2018
Atlanta, GA
January 10, 2018
Why Nobody Fills Out My Forms Part 2: Electric Boogaloo
JazzCon 2018
New Orleans, LA
March 22, 2018
Why Nobody Fills Out My Forms Part 2: Electric Boogaloo
Scenic City Summit 2018
Chattanooga, TN
Is This a Button? A Question Your Users Should Never Ask.
Connect.TECH 2018
Atlanta, GA
Why Nobody Fills Out My Forms, Why Nobody Fills Out My Forms Part 2: Electric Boogaloo
CodeStock 2018
Knoxville, TN
April 21, 2018
Why Nobody Fills Out My Forms Part 2: Electric Boogaloo
We RISE Tech Conference 2018
Atlanta, GA
June 22, 2018
Icons Behaving Badly
Music City Tech 2018
Nashville, TN
June 1, 2018
Why Nobody Fills Out My Forms
All Things Open 2017
Raleigh, NC
January 10, 2017
Developers: Why Care About the User?, Tablets and Hybrids Need Mobile-Optimized Websites, Too!
Codestock 2017
Knoxville, TN
January 10, 2017
Icons Behaving Badly
Connect.TECH 2017
Atlanta, GA
January 10, 2017
Developers: Why Care About the User?, Why Nobody Fills Out My Forms
DevSpaceConf 2017
Huntsville, AL
January 10, 2017
Tablets and Hybrids Need Mobile-Optimized Websites, Too!, Why Nobody Fills Out My Forms
JazzCon 2017
New Orleans, LA
January 10, 2017
Why Nobody Fills Out My Forms
University of Illinois Web Conference 2017
Champaign, IL
January 10, 2017
When the Developer Must Design
CodeStock 2016
Knoxville, TN
January 10, 2016
Tablets and Hybrids Need Mobile-Optimized Websites, Too!, Why Nobody Fills Out My Forms
Connect.JS/TECH 2016
Atlanta, GA
January 10, 2016
When the Developer Must Design
DevNexus 2016
Atlanta, GA
January 10, 2016
Tablets and Hybrids Need Mobile-Optimized Websites, Too!
Scenic City Summit 2016
Chattanooga, TN
January 10, 2016
Responsive Design and Development "Gotchas"
Connect.JS 2015
Atlanta, GA
January 10, 2015
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